It has become a trend on the internet to make some sort of favorite list, or to list things that you’ve been up to, or things that you are excited about. I’ve got a backlog of things to post, so I’m trying out this list thing.

Crafting: the crazy quilt!

I’ve got about 4 square feet on one edge to finish before I start binding it. Going to take a look at some of Conway’s quilt shops to find the right fabric.

Web: the woot-off

Woot.com is a great site with one-item-per-day sales, mostly on tech stuff. Everyone so often, they have a woot-off, where they sell their leftovers and otherwise really good deals. Almost bought a computer yesterday, but by the time I made up my mind to get it, they were all gone!

Reading: White Noise by Don Delillo

This book has nothing to do with the recent movies of the same name. Don Delillo is one of my husband Tyrone’s favorite authors. The book so far is very descriptive in a surprising and quirky way. It starts out with a professor at a small liberal arts college at the beginning of the school year. I only know about two other events in the book, the “Airborne Toxic Event”, from which a hip indie band takes their name, and a scene where a child touches the television. Tyrone examined that scene in his dissertation, I don’t remember why now, but it was very interesting at the time.

Listening: “Change is Hard” from She & Him: Volume One

This song made me drag out the guitar and sing it in the curved ceiling atrium while Ty went out running yesterday. Small and big screen movie star Zooey Deschanel sings like country when country wasn’t cool. She evokes all of the 50s and 70s country leading ladies: Patsy Cline, Linda Ronstadt, Connie Francis. M Ward backs her up with guitar, vocals, and his trademark whistling skills. Mike Mogis is even featured playing his steel guitar.

Try a sample!

Watching: Twin Peaks The Definitive Gold Box EditionJust finished this David Lynch classic. My mother and my sister really got into it when it was first shown, but I always had marching band practice or something. I didn’t understand why they liked it so much until I saw the episode with “the Giant”. I watched the first season later on Bravo in college, but they never broadcast the second season. The mystery runs deep in this show with murder, embezzlement, and mystical plots, while it almost parodies the modern soap opera with a bunch of cheesy love stories.


Bread-winning: Amazon AssociatesOther blogs I’ve read will suggest books, music, movies, magazines, or other gadgets. Often, they link to them at amazon.com. The associates program gives me a cut of the sale if I link to an object and someone actually buys it. If you need a gift card, I can get a cut on those too, so I’ll have a post on that later. Anyway, this is my first post trying it out. Let me know if you have any problems.

Baking: Chocolate Chip Bar Cookies

I really wanted to make cookies, but I didn’t want to be over an oven for a long time. The bars were really thick, and I don’t really like oatmeal in cookies, but it was good in the bars.

Gardening: houseplants
We went to the Little Rock Farmer’s Market last weekend.
A nice vendor named Jane showed us some fun houseplants, and we ended up getting a few hanging baskets. She called this one an “African Tobacco Pipe” plant. It has hanging boughs that look like the center plant, only with a curved “pipe” bottom. If you know what it is let me know:

This one is a succulent, String of Bananas, String of Pearls, Banana Vine, Necklace Plant Senecio radicans. The mother plant that Ty has in is office is 5 feet long!





Sedum Burrito! It jiggles! Yes I have a thing for succulents. Need to divide the Hens and Chicks when my mother visits this weekend.




Buying: @ St. Joseph’s Tent sale tomorrowJust across the way from us is a huge second-hand store. It seems that in the south, if you have an on-going second-hand store, it is always called a “flea market”. So here is a picture of St. Joseph’s Flea Market Tent Sale preparation.





Notice that there aren’t any tents, just tarps over the tables.